GRIEFBOT
“I was hesitant to try the whole voice cloning process, worried that it was crossing some kind of moral line, but after thinking about it more, I realized that as long as I treat it for what it is, [it is] a way to preserve his memory in a unique way,” he told CNN.
He shared a few messages with his sister and mother.
“It was absolutely astonishing... See more
He shared a few messages with his sister and mother.
“It was absolutely astonishing... See more
When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead | CNN Business
While psychology scholars are cautious in attempting to assess this impact (Cann, 2015; Sofka Cupit Gilbert, 2012; Kasket, 2019), others suggest that, preemptively, to avoid any harm, AI chatbots meant to help cope with the loss of a loved one should be regarded, and therefore regulated, as medical devices (Lindemann, 2022).
Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska • Griefbots, Deadbots, Postmortem Avatars: on Responsible Applications of Generative AI in the Digital Afterlife Industry - Philosophy & Technology
To some, these technologies are nothing more than embalming tools, made to mask the inevitable pain of profound loss. And among these many tools, what could be more pernicious than a chatbot that speaks in the voice of those who are, in reality, gone forever?
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
But in the industrialised West, communities of support are collapsing. Our spiritual institutions, practices and beliefs have been denuded by centuries of disenchantment. This may suggest that technological modernity, with its commitment to scientific rationalism, is to blame for the Western world’s often-impoverished relationship to death.
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
In the aftermath of the tragic, when silence or “being with” or an embrace may be the only appropriate responses, then only embodied presence will do. Its consolations are irreplaceable.
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
“My fiancée was a poet, and I would never disrespect her by feeding her words into an automatic plagiarism machine,” Abney said.
“She cannot be replaced. She cannot be recreated,” he said. “I’m also lucky to have some recordings of her singing and of her speech, but I absolutely do not want to hear her voice coming out of a robot pretending to be... See more
“She cannot be replaced. She cannot be recreated,” he said. “I’m also lucky to have some recordings of her singing and of her speech, but I absolutely do not want to hear her voice coming out of a robot pretending to be... See more
When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead | CNN Business
Why is the tech designed like this? Why try to make users believe the bot has intention, that it’s like us?
Elizabeth Weil • You Are Not a Parrot
Griefbots, Deadbots, Postmortem Avatars: on Responsible Applications of Generative AI in the Digital Afterlife Industry - Philosophy & Technology
Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińskalink.springer.com
Instead of offering new spiritual resources, our technocultures seem to provide us with a vast array of ingenious instruments to help us turn away from death: we have medicine to postpone, entertainment to soothe, drugs to stupefy, and other technologies to help us avoid and ignore. The average person is at once inundated with stylised images of... See more